On 11/12/2013 11:14 AM, Liam Price wrote:
> Dear List.
>
> I have recently started a new job where they currently have bacula 5.0.2
> installed. It seems like the backups here have never been tested. So of
> course, I want to do that.
>
> In terms of bare metal, does bacula support it with this version? If
> not, what are your solutions for bare metal using bacula? would I need
> to build a base system first, add the file daemon to that client then
> restore files from there?

Bare metal restore of clients is pretty straight forward. I have found 
no need for any sort of recovery disk. Just install a minimal OS on the 
bare metal, install bacula-fd on the client, configure the bacula-fd on 
the client, ensure the new client is getting assigned the correct 
network address, and then run a restore job from the Bacula server machine.

Bare metal restore of the machine DIR and SD run on is more complex, 
since it requires restoring both SD and DIR, and the catalog DB.

>
> I have had a good read through the documentation for bacula, but I'm
> still finding it a bit difficult to understand.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> lpr
>
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